Data Warehousing (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) are a pair of concepts almost as old as databases. They spring from the need for enterprises to dig into huge amounts of data to identify business trends over time to anticipate future needs. They are inexorably linked concepts; BI refers to the …

During my first week at my new job, I had the opportunity to teach some of my new coworkers about gdb breakpoint commands and conditional breakpoints. I had a lot of fun teaching these techniques my friends here and thought others might find the story enjoyable as well.

Tonight, I sat down and read through every resume in the 2013 SCS senior
resume book. Reading resumes for a company is really interesting, because
I find myself looking at them very differently. As a student, I didn't
really understand what sections of the resume are important. I thought
it …

I spent some time this week switching from bash to zsh (I really enjoy
zsh - I treat it as bash with floating point arithmetic and other
niceities)
and making a theme for
oh-my-zsh and prezto
for myself. I'm not quite done, but I am pretty pleased with
the results.